Huernia.] ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 909 
papillate ; tube of the dried flower 10 lin. long, apparently purple- 
brown within, bordered with a paler colour (greenish-yellow?) at 
the mouth ; larger teeth 1} lin. long and rather broader at the 
base, smaller teeth 1 lin. long and about 14 lin. broad at the 
base, all deltoid acute ; outer corona 5-lobed, blackish ; lobes 2 lin. 
long, 1-1} lin. broad, transversely oblong, emarginate, crenately 
3—4-toothed or acutely bifid at the apex, varying in the same flower ; 
inner corona-lobes 1? lin. long, subulate, connivent-erect at the 
basal part, then diverging, with erect tips, dark purple-brown. 
Sours Arrica: without locality, cultivated, Rabjohn ! 
According to Mr. Rabjohn the stems are ‘‘short, stout, in dense clusters,’ and 
the ‘ flowers dark brown, almost black.” 
5. H. Piersii (N. E. Br.) ; plant 1-1} in. high, with short erect 
crowded acutely 4-angled stems }-1} in. long and about $ in. 
square, with acute spreading teeth about 1 lin. long, glabrous, 
green, mottled with dull purplish; flowers 2—3 together, near the 
base of the young stems ; pedicels } in. (or more?) long (only 1 
detached flower seen), glabrous ; sepals } in. long, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, glabrous ; corolla 1-1} in. in diam. ; tube cawpanulate, 
4 in. long, 5 lin. in diam. outside ; lobes spreading very abruptly 
from the tube, 4—44 lin. long and broad, deltoid, very acutely (almost 
subulate-) acuminate, glabrous and smooth outside; inner surface 
very minutely papillate on the lobes only, smooth elsewhere, but 
thinly hearded with long stiff outstanding purple-brown hairs in the 
throat and around the mouth of the tube, deep ochreous-yellow, 
spotted and the minute papille tipped with purple or crimson, with 
the spots passing into transverse lines at the mouth of the tube, 
which is creamy-white with purple transverse lines and wholly 
purple around the corona; outer corona-lobes about 3 lin. long and 
broad, shortly connate at the base, subquadrate and very deeply 
bifid, black ; inner corona-lobes } in. long, subulate, acute, with a 
transverse ridge at their base, connivent-erect much above the 
anthers, with diverging tips, purple. 
CentRaL Recion: Wodehouse Div.; Carnarvon Farm, near the Railway 
between Sterkstroom and Indwe, Piers in Herb. Pillans, 622 ! 
Described from living stems and fresh flower preserved in fluid. 
6. H. Pillansii (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1904, xxxv. 50, 
Pillansi, by error) ; plant densely tufted ; stems }-14 in. long, }—2 in. 
in diam., erect or ascending, subglobose when young, becoming ovoid 
or cylindric, densely covered with conical recurved bristle-pointed 
tubercles 14—2 lin. long, in 20-24 vertical or spiral series, glabrous, 
green, or dull purplish where exposed to the sun ; flowers 1—3 together 
near the base of the young stems, successively developed ; pedicels 
14~2 lin. long, glabrous ; sepals 2—3 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad, ovate- 
lanceolate at the base, attenuate into filiform recurving tips, glabrous ; 
corolla 1-1} in. in diam. ; tube campanulate, about } in. long and 
